…but for The Artist winning ALL that Oscar bling last night, including Best Picture, that makes yesterday evening’s Academy Awards the best in years.
If only Uggie had been nominated for Best Supporting Actor, then it would have been spot-on perfect....
Is it really that good? Why, yes. Yes it is!
And I think that I enjoyed it even more the second time!
Incidentally, it was literally a sold-out screening yesterday afternoon when we caught The Artist for the second time together. Even knowing what was coming, Kristen and I were still thrilling and reacting to it as if it were last week’s showing all over again. It was already my favorite movie from 2011 and the more I see it and think about it, the more it’s becoming one of my all-time favorite movies ever!
Here’s my original review of The Artist: one of the most captivating and creative motion pictures that I’ve seen in a woefully long time. I’m so looking forward to owning the Blu-ray of this as soon as it comes out 🙂...
The Artist is the best picture that came out in 2011. Nothing else comes close. I found myself thinking that yesterday as we were watching it (at the Carousel Grande Cinema 15 in Greensboro) and the more and more that I’ve thought about it since the more resolute I am in that belief.
They just don’t make movies like this anymore, folks. And I do not mean anything about how director Michel Hazanavicius chose to make this a (largely) black and white silent film in the style of the late 1920s (including maintaining the era’s 1.33:1 aspect ratio, which I thought was truly class). This is… well it’s the kind of movie that if you’ve ever complained about how movies aren’t as good and clean and imaginative as they used to be, then you owe it to yourself to see The Artist.
It’s just quite simply the most amazing...